The Have’s and the Have Not’s
Especially in Major League Baseball, there are the HAVE’s and the HAVE NOT’s. There is huge payroll disparity between the teams mostly because of the different sized markets and the revenues that they can generate. In 2007, the New York Yankees had the top payroll of $189.7M versus Tampa Bay Devil Rays payroll of $24+M payroll. Although MLB has tried to level the disparity through revenue sharing, it’s not even close to working and competition is severely unbalanced. Baseball payroll is a function of performance in MLB. Small market teams, for the most part, simply can’t compete with the big market behemoths. So what’s a fan of the Pirates, Reds, Devil Rays to do?
Competitive balance is a cornerstone of TruStar Sports. Market size now has absolutely no reflection on the capabilities or success of any team in any TruStar Sports league. (Complete details are available in “Power to the Fans”). Because player salaries come out of a common fund and not from the teams that they play for, any team that comes from a larger market area will not have any advantage over a team form a smaller market. Players are paid from a common fund. From it they receive their equal base salary, an end of season team standings bonus and a end-of-season performance bonus that’s determined by the now empowered fans!
